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Education
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CINTT's intelligence curriculum consists of five intelligence courses complementing the student's core analytical competency skills. Each course builds upon the preceding course. Throughout the courses students learn to write in a concise and persuasive manner required of intelligence analysts. Students learn how to prepare and present intelligence briefings, receive constructive feedback and learn how to perform under pressure. The courses were developed in consultation with current and retired intelligence professionals and educators. CINTT will also design additional courses tailored to each universities or colleges needs.
- Examines the historical development and role of intelligence supporting US foreign and national security policy
- Surveys the development of the intelligence discipline from the Revolutionary War through the 21st centuryand the Global War on Terrorism
- Evaluates the legislation, executive orders and events influencing the evolution of intelligence in support of US policy makers
- Provides students with a basic understanding of the intelligence process and disciplines
- Examines the roles and missions of various agencies comprising the US Intelligence Community
- Examines the intelligence analytical process
- Reviews the methodical approaches used by intelligence analysts to prepare assessments for US policy makers
- Examines the analytical process used in instability analysis, warning, counterintelligence and terrorism
- Analyzes factors influencing an analyst's work to include cognitive, cultural/social, and institutional biases and how politicization of intelligence influences the analytical process
- Introduces various tools and research methods used by analysts to process and organize information
- Explores the art of developing and presenting intelligence briefings
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- Examines how US intelligence supports the creation, implementation and evaluation of US foreign and national security policy
- Analyzes and evaluates the role of intelligence during critical foreign policy and national security events in US history using case studies
- Examines the Intelligence Community (IC) analytical process and the mediums used to advise decision makers and military leaders
- Surveys major national security challenges facing the Intelligence Community in the 21st century
- Introduces students to technological and scientific principles underlying major intelligence challenges
- Terrorism
- Transnational crime
- Cyber crime
- CBRN threats and proliferation
- Competition for resources
- Challenges posed by China's growing power
- North Korean nuclear threat
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
- Designed for students who completed Introduction to Intelligence, Introduction to Analytics, Intelligence Support to the PolicyMaker/Military Leader and Survey of National Security Challenges in the 21st century.
- Students participate in practical exercises developing various intelligence products, including a National Intelligence Estimate and present briefings to current and former US policy makers, military leaders and politicians
- Students learn the art of intelligence writing practicing various styles used by the Intelligence Community. Students produce analytical material comparable to that used in daily intelligence support to the policy maker
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